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Captures in France (dépt. Oise) on 31 VII 2005
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These ♂ and ♀ copulated together.
♂ : Length : about 6.3 mm.
♀ : Length : about 6.8 mm.
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- For the determination of the genus Athalia, see :
The comment on the Genus Athalia in :
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7966038416/in/photolist...
- For the determination of the species, see :
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7996272718/in/photostream
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Keyword : Allantinae
Phantom Crane Fly (Bittacomorpha clavipes) in copula
TEXAS: Jasper Co.
stream in Angelina National Forest
Jasper, 18 mi NW
11-Jun-2015
J.C. Abbott #2744 & K.K. Abbott
An arthropod orgy goes HORRIBLY WRONG!
The bodies pile up, the wings fade to sunset hues, flutter, and splinter to dust.
Beginning to realize that BOOKS regularly turn me on much more than MUSIC ever does.
Collingwood, April 2006
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There are always hoards of monkeys in and around the Virupaksha Temple. Sometimes they eat bananas, sometimes they copulate, so there is always something to photograph. EXIF not correct!
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River otters making babies at surf's edge, Admiralty Inlet shoreline. This pair spent much of the afternoon linked up, doing it both on the beach and in the water. Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA.
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Before they copulate, the male and the female damselfly spend a considerable amount of time in physical contact with one another. This is accomplished by the male clasping the female's thorax with terminal appendages at the end of his abdomen.
A quick grab shot at 624mm equivalent hand held.
I had photographed a Spiny Leaf Beetle a year ago. It is then I began to think how they might go about the process of reproducing, given the heavily fortified armor around the female. Today I found the answer! :-)
Found this pair of mating Spiny Leaf Beetles today. I was shocked and mesmerized at the same time. Look at them, they are copulating just like every other Beetle even with those large spines surrounding them! A very delicate maneuver indeed. :-)
They were on a leaf which was rocking violently to the wind. But they never budged for more than an hour, until they were done.
Size: 7mm approx ( female)
♂ & ♀ Captured (on 08 IX 1986) at the same time & in the same place.
........... Although not copulating, I think that it is about the same species.
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sp. marginella (of Chevin 1983) = thompsoni C. , sp. succincta (of Chevin 1983) = marginella F.
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For the keys of determination of these sp., see :
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322520010/in/photostream &
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322564390/in/photostream &
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7379479482/in/photostream &
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7379502352/in/photostream
See also sp. marginella : www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7463762972/in/photostream
Therefore, sp. marginella or thompsoni.
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1571 ♀
According to the keys above this ♀ is a thompsoni, because the teeth of his saw are projecting.
See my photo (whence the contrasts were strongly stressed) of very bad quality (the magnification of my binocular lens being of X40, it would be necessary X70) where I added awkwardly the drawing of the ventral outline of a part of the saw.
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1569 ♂
According to Chevin 1983, the punctuation of mesopleura is not easy to estimate.
The color of mandibles (ignored by Chevin) is difficult to use, except in the extreme cases :
- According to Taeger 1988 [Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Blattwespengattung Tenthredo L.... ] , the colors of the mandibles (apex excluded) are the following ones :
...... marginella : The base is always black.
...... thompsoni : The base is yellow, very rarely black (in that case they are stained with yellow towards the apex).
- The majority of captures, which we made, have mandibles stained with yellow, but neither on the base nor close to their apex.
... It is thus generally difficult to recognize the species.
We note for this 1569 ♂ :
- Its mandibles are, from their base, very mainly yellow.
- It was captured at the same time & in the same place that the thompsoni ♀.
- Its date of capture is late (marginella appearing earlier - cf. Chevin 1983).
For these reasons, this ♂ is a thompsoni.
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Finally : Tenthredo (T.) thompsoni
The Sony DSC-T3 was perfect for that picture.
Because built very compact and small, I could position the camera quite near the object (although it seemed, the flies were too busy to recognize what was going on next to them).
I Photographed this Male and Female Praying Mantis in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, They were copulating, you can see how much smaller the Male is here...
I used the 600 F/4 with a full stacked set of Kenko extension tubes for this series, The detail lacks some, but I like the Dof it gives me... I captured some video also as I fed the female a spider, she snatched it quick, I just gotta figure out how to edit it and get it uploaded!
Taken in ancient woodland in Northwest Leicestershire near the Derbyshire for border, that I specially visit for Butterflies and Moths.
We saw these coming down the ride, at first we thought it was a dragonfly with a frit in it's mouth, but as it flew buy we were surprised to see it was a pair of frits mating. The landed in a nearby tree just about 8 feet above head height stayed momentarily and flew off again still joined.
Capture in France (dépt. Ain) on 20 VII 1989
These ♂ and ♀ was copulating.
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For the keys of determination of these sp., see :
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322520010/in/photostream
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/30607305582/in/photolis...
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I added the photo of the tergites of another amoena ♂, showing a rarer coloring [Capture in France (dépt. Oise) on 07 VIII 1988]
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Keywords : Tenthredinidae Tenthredininae
This sequence I put together shows 2 Tree Swallows mating right beside their nest box. From L to R, the male flies in, copulates then flies off. Talk about a quickie :) !!
Capture in France (dépt. Ain) on 07 VI 1992 - Altitude : about 760 m
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These ♂ and ♀ was copulating.
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For the keys of determination of these sp., see :
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322520010/in/photostream
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322564390/in/photostream
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7379479482/in/photostream
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Take care ! :
Only the color of the hairs on head, allows to differentiate the sp. ♂ : bifasciata rossii & segmentaria.
But, we observe on our capture ♂ (is it specific?) :
- The grey color of the apex of forewings does not penetrate into the median cells (it is the opposite for the sp. rossii).
- This grey color is also more diffuse as for the sp. rossii.